Verity Bagnold

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Basic Stats

Full Name: Verity Bagnold
Nickname(s): Vere, Ver, V
Gender: Female
Age: 23
Date of Birth: July 25, 1979
Zodiac: Leo
Sexuality: Bisexual
Relationship Status: Single
Bloodline: Halfblood
Hometown: Bath, England
Residence: Flat 218A above the Moon & Sun Cafe
House & Year: Gryffindor 1997 (dropped out after 6th year in 1996)
Occupation: Stripper: The Alley Cat; shopgirl: Weasleys' Wizard Wheezes; shopgirl: Utopia
Pet: None

Family

Father: Richard Bagnold (wizard)
Mother: Millicent Bagnold (witch; retired Minister for Magic, 1980-1990)
Brother: Edmund Bagnold (wizard; b. 1977)
Brother: Rupert Bagnold (wizard; b. 1991)

History

In 1980, when Verity was not quite a year old, her mum, Millicent Bagnold, was elected as Minister for Magic. As such, young Verity grew up in something of a spotlight. Wizarding tabloids ran amok about her mother, and of course filled in all sorts of information about Verity and her older brother, Edmund (two years her senior). Millicent had been elected at a time when fear of Voldemort was high, and it fell upon her shoulders to keep the wizarding world from falling apart in the face of such an enemy. Although she had grown up with purist beliefs, she felt that, in the face of what He-Who-Must-Not-Be-Named and his followers were doing, with regards to muggles and muggleborns, she should adopt a more muggle-friendly attitude as the Minister. So although she never fully shed her purist ideals, she attempted to put them aside for the good of the wizarding world, particularly after the fall of He-Who-Must-Not-Be-Named. The rest of her tenure as Minister was spent in what could be considered the "Golden Years." People were happy after such a time of terror, and even though they were still rounding up Voldemort's followers, things were going smoothly.

Verity and Edmund grew up in this world, and Edmund went off to Hogwarts in 1988. Two years later in 1990, as Verity received her Hogwarts letter, Millicent decided that it was time to retire as Minister for Magic. She realised that her children's entire childhood had passed and she'd barely noticed it, with working all the time. So of course she chose to retire right when both children would be out of the house. So Millicent and husband Richard decided to have another child, one whose mum would be around during their childhood. Neither Verity nor Edmund liked this idea, but when they returned home from school the following summer, they had a younger brother, Rupert. Verity grew quite annoyed with little Rupert. In part because he would get to grow up with a mum who wasn't always out being the bloody Minister for bloody Magic, but also because he and Edmund got normal names and she was stuck with Verity. So the little blonde returned to school for her second year as a little spitfire, out to prove that one didn't need a mum around to grow up right. Puberty hit her hard when she wasn't quite thirteen yet, and she started noticing the boys. Verity started flirting with boys, even though she didn't have much of a body to flirt with — she was cursed with practically no boobs, and boy did she bemoan that fact to her roomies — but then she just became even more determined to prove that she could be just as much of a girl as the girls who had boobs.

By her fifth year, Verity was rather tired of school. The boys all seemed so immature and despite her best efforts, they preferred the girls who had more boobs and curves than she did. They didn't even seem to care much that by this time, she'd developed something of an easy reputation. Meanwhile, everytime Verity got a letter from home, her mum was going on and on about Rupert and how he was growing and such, always about him. She didn't even seem to care about Verity. Edmund had always had their father's attention, so she wasn't even getting much attention from Richard. The tournament was interesting, at least, and the Durmstrang boys were pretty fit, too. Verity took it upon herself to help "promote unity" between the two schools, letting some of the Durmstrang boys snog her, grope her barely-there boobs, slide their hands up under her skirt. Surprisingly, actually, Verity found herself attracted to some of the Beauxbatons girls, as well. Confused, Verity just stayed away from them, concentrating instead on the boys of Durmstrang.

At the end of the year, when Cedric Diggory died and Harry Potter started claiming that Voldemort was back, Verity decided she didn't like any of this. She didn't know who or what to believe, her mum was still cooing over Rupert, Edmund was off doing his own thing (Verity still doesn't know where he went or what he was doing, just that after sitting for the NEWTs and finishing school, he packed up his bags and left; no owls to the family or anything), and her dad still wasn't paying attention to her. Coupled with the fact that obviously things had changed in the wizarding world, but Fudge, who had been elected Minister when her mother retired, kept saying everything was fine. Then when she got back to school for her sixth year, Harry Potter was still saying that Voldemort was back, and Verity was very glad that she hadn't passed her Defense Against the Dark Arts OWL, considering the new professor. Verity was just sick of school and sick of everything, the politics that she was still surrounded by as the former minister's daughter, the growing unrest, school in general. But she wasn't seventeen yet, so she had to stay in school. At the end of her sixth year, she got a job for the summer working as a shop assistant in Weasleys' Wizard Wheezes on Diagon Alley, a shop opened by her former housemates, the twins Weasley. She found that she far preferred being around them and their world of laughter and jokes than she did the world of Hogwarts and politics.

So when her seventeenth birthday rolled around, Verity announced to her parents that she would not be returning to Hogwarts for her seventh year. Millicent could not stand the scandal that would come from that, especially right on the heels of everything that happened in the Ministry of Magic and the proof that Voldemort was indeed back, so she announced that if Verity did not return to school and sit for her NEWTs and complete her education, she would be disowned. So Verity packed her things and moved out. Fortunately, the twins Weasley kept her on at the shop, and with the money she made at the shop and the little bits of money she'd had saved up, she managed to get a small flat in the area of Diagon Alley.

With regards to the brewing war, Verity stayed out of it. She helped out around the Weasleys' shop, but that wasn't really making her enough money to really live off of. It was perhaps a stroke of luck that she ended up at the Alley Cat Strip Club down Knockturn Alley one night. It turned out that one of the strippers had just quit and they were looking to hire. Verity applied on the spot and was told she had to "audition" first. So one of the other girls led her into the back and got her changed into one of the outfits, a quidditch uniform. After being handed a broom, she was pushed out onto the stage and music started up. For once in her life, the attention of everyone in the room was on her. And she liked it. Although she'd never done anything like this before, she danced there on the stage, losing a piece of clothing at a time until she was down to the tiny little g-string that the girl had given her to put on, the matching bra having been the last piece removed. Even though her boobs were tiny, the men in the club seemed to like it. When the song ended and she left the stage, the owner of the Alley Cat told her she was hired. When the girl who had helped her earlier was giving her back her clothes, Verity felt the same attraction to her that she had to some of the Beauxbatons girls only a few years before. It was the same kind of attraction she'd had to various boys over the years, and Verity didn't know how to feel about this. She accepted her clothes with a mumbled thanks, changed, and returned to her flat.

Throughout the entire war, as her former classmates were fighting for either side or training to become healers or just staying out of things entirely, Verity worked at the twins' shop by day and the Alley Cat by night. She still didn't contact her parents during any of it, and she had no way of contacting her older brother, either. She'd pretty much lost contact with most of her friends from school, too, but she didn't mind that too much. As Verity was coming to terms with liking girls and boys both, the girl at the strip club — Clarise — was happy to help her along the way. She was the first girl that Verity snogged and also the first girl that she slept with (Verity had slept with a few blokes after having dropped out of school, before she started working at the Alley Cat). This fact made working at the Alley Cat a little bit awkward for Verity at first, but the looks in the eyes of the men she danced for helped with that. For once, she felt appreciated and wanted.

In the years since then, Verity has come to terms with her sexuality and become wholly comfortable with her body. Clarise was killed by Death Eaters in 2000, and although Verity and all the others at the Alley Cat mourned her, Verity moved on. She didn't care about love or relationships. She was happy working in the Weasleys' shop and at the strip club. Casual sex and flings were plenty for her. She most certainly did not want a family, and that was what people in love were supposed to want, so she vowed to never fall in love, but rather "love the one you're with."

In late 2003, Eileen, a girl who used to work at the Alley Cat and still knows some of the girls there, told Verity about her friend Anthony Goldstein, who was opening a sex toy / porn shop on Euphoria Lane and that he was looking for help. Since the Weasleys now had more help at their shop and didn't need Verity as much anymore, and her landlord was raising her rent, Verity went to Anthony for a job and was hired. While checking out Euphoria Lane, which she'd never really ventured down much, she came across a flat for rent above a small cafe, the Moon & Sun Cafe. It was a lot better than her dinky current flat, and cost less, too. So she terminated her lease and moved into the flat above the cafe.